The TimeOut Mint Planner, 18 October 2012

A still from Innocent Sorcerers, which will be shown at Habitat World in Delhi.

Updated: Thu, Oct 18 2012. 09 10 PM IST

Bangalore

Music

Rzhude David & Friends II

20 October

Guitarist Rzhude has played with Bangalore greats such as Thermal and A Quarter, Lucky Ali and L. Subramaniam. On Saturday, Rzhude will jam with musicians such as Prakash Sontakke, Dominic Yesudas, Preetam Koilpillai, Bethel Tsuzu and Manjunath.

The Delhi band describes itself on Facebook as: “When Blues and Good Ole’ Rock ‘n’ Roll had a baby!” Their debut EP, Bigger Than Blues, stuck to that description. Their music is influenced by Mississippi Delta blues, blues-rock, Indian fusion and metal. The band is on tour and will travel to Naukuchiatal, Uttarakhand, for the Aqua Jam Festival on 27 October.

Maithreyi Satish, a teacher and artist, will lead this 2-hour craft workshop for children aged 3-7. The session will involve creative activities—participants will make a lion and a giraffe that will be used as puppets during Dussehra festivities.

Suriyamoorthy’s solo show presents 18 vignettes from rural and urban life—the story of the unfolding of a new India that is getting more urbanized by the day. These oil-on-canvas works have a range of subjects, from weddings to groups of girls dancing during festivals.

DakshinaChitra will hold a two-day workshop on traditional Kalamkari hand-painting on cloth for adults. Master-craftsman Vijay Kumar will conduct the workshop. Kalamkari—the art of painting on fabrics with vegetable dyes—derives its name from kalam or pen, which refers to the bamboo reed used to trace intricate designs on cloth.

Vir Das, a recipient of the Colton Performance Award for Outstanding Achievement in Acting, will present an evening of stand-up comedy. Since 2003, Das has performed over 150 comedy shows. In English, 1 hour.

The art gallery at DakshinaChitra is presenting a group show of sculptures and artworks by Careen J. Langstieh, Kirusiya Rani Veera, Koilpitchai Prabhakar M. and Vasantha Raja. Langstieh, a postgraduate in art from Shillong university, has shown her works in India and the US. Veera, whose works are in black and white, uses the jackfruit as a metaphor. Prabhakar’s ceramic sculptures combine nature and Indian designs. Raja’s bronze human figures appear in relaxed poses.

10.30am-5.30pm, DakshinaChitra. Entry, Rs.75 for Indians and Rs.200 for foreigners.

By Nandini Reddy

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Delhi

Film

O Friend, This Waiting!

23 October

This film reflects on the entwined fortunes of the padams written by Telugu poet Kshetrayya and the women they were written for. Apart from keerthanas, padams were the prevalent format for Telugu poetry in the 17th century. The film will be introduced by directors Justin McCarthy and Sandhya Kumar, and the screening will be followed by a discussion. Film duration: 32 minutes.

The Polish Institute and Habitat Film Club will screen four striking, lesser-known films from Poland that were released in the late 1950s and early 1960s. On Saturday, watch Janusz Morgenstern’s Goodbye, See You Tomorrow. Watch director Jerzy Kawalerowicz’s Night Train on Sunday, Innocent Sorcerers by Andrzej Wajda on Monday and Eroica by director Andrzej Munk on Tuesday.

The traditional flower procession celebrating communal harmony returns to Delhi and Mehrauli. The 10-day festival will feature a series of cultural events as well as a mela (fair). The sair festivities begin with the playing of shehnai and presentation of a flower pankha to Delhi lt-governor Tejendra Khanna and chief minister Sheila Dikshit.

Members of the Anjuman-Sair-e-Gul-Faroshan will also invite the dignitaries to present flower pankhas and chaddars at the shrine of Bakhtiar Kaki (4.15pm, 1 November) and the Yogamaya ji Temple (6pm, 2 November). There will be a Communal Harmony Yatra at India Gate from 3pm on 30 October. A kite-flying competition, starting 3pm, will be organized at the DDA Park near Shamsi Talab, Mehrauli, on 31 October. There will be a procession of pankhas and qawwali on 3 November at Jahaz Mahal, Mehrauli.

Young, upcoming dancers from the city will take part in this programme, which will also feature recitals by artistes with disabilities.

The performances will include a Bharatanatyam recital by Sharanya Chandran, Kuchipudi by T. Reddi Lakshmi and Kathak by Vidha Lal. Members of the Ability Unlimited dance troupe, among others, will perform Mahabharata, under the guidance of Syed Sallauddin Pasha. The event, organized by The Kuchpudi Dance Academy, Delhi, is being sponsored by the Indian Council for Cultural Relations, Delhi, Sahitya Kala Parishad and Magtech Process Equipments Pvt. Ltd.

6.30pm. Kamani Auditorium, 1, Copernicus Marg (43503351).

Theatre

Old World Theatre Festival 2012—

Konark

21 October

Directed by Ramchandra Singh and written by Jagdish Chandra Mathur, this is a production of Konark by the Naya Theatre group of the late Habib Tanvir. The play is about the construction of the famous Sun Temple of Konark 700 years ago. In Hindi; 1 hour, 45 minutes.

Audio Ashram launches its new festival, Area 79, featuring artistes associated with the label as well as international collaborators. Area 79 aims to provide a platform to alternative artistes who are making a mark in non-mainstream, non-commercial music. The festival will have three stages, an open mic, art installations, exhibitions, and a flea market. The live stage will feature performances by the jazz trio Syncopation and live electronica by Sattyananda.

Young musicians from the NorthEast and Delhi will perform at this free concert, organized in collaboration with Friends of Friends.

7pm. Habitat World, IHC (43663333).

Art

Apna Ghar

The Apna Ghar exhibition at the Vadehra Art Gallery.

Till 1 November

Four artists—Chandan Gomes, Vicky Roy, Nishtha Jain and Samudra Kajal Saikia—reflect upon the idea of home in this exhibition, which has around 60 photographs, videos, installations and prints. From the body to a shelter to a family house, the definition of “home” in Apna Ghar may vary, but each artist successfully intertwines the personal with the political to make public what is otherwise a private domain. Roy’s monochromatic images, for example, capture the lives of the residents of a children’s shelter in Paharganj in the Capital. Saikia’s take is a more conceptual interpretation of the theme.

Artist Manisha Gera Baswani’s new solo exhibition comes after a five-year gap and draws on her attempts at balancing work and family life, against a backdrop of questions that occupy an uneasy, grey area within feminism. The show also marks a shift in style, from detailed craft-oriented paintings with her characteristic interpretation of miniatures, to a more symbolic, minimalist approach that she says reflects her current state of mind.

Her works share a warm, brown shade that comes from her technique of repeatedly washing and repainting her work with tea water to give it a layered look. The show also has Baswani’s first sculpture, titled ‘Corazón Rosa’ (Spanish for “red rose”), an iron armour that contains a red heart.

Ista Hyderabad is hosting a Bengali food festival, Rannaghor. Vegetarians can savour dhokar dalna, sukto, jhinge aloo posto and Radha ballavi, while non-vegetarians can feast on Kolkata bhetki paturi, macher kalia and kosha mangsho. The desserts include sandesh, pantua and chom chom, to name a few. Lunch is in buffet format and dinner in thali format.

The German orchestra, Tuten und Blasen, has in the past played in cinemas to silent movies from the 1920s. Their performance here will be preceded by a showing of director Franz Osten’s Prapancha Pash (Throw of Dice), an 80-minute silent film based on the Mahabharat. The event is being organized by the state tourism department and Goethe-Zentrum Hyderabad.

French sculptor and photographer Philippe Ramette stages himself in a black suit and creates captivating images of landscapes, which he integrates in astonishing ways. He then produces the shots in cooperation with photographer Marc Domage.

The Park hotel is celebrating Durga Puja with a traditional Bengali lunch in the main banquet on Ashtami and Navami (22-23 October), Mughlai fare at Saffron, Kolkata Tangra Khana at Zen6, and Kolkata’s street food at TheStreet.

The Shohan theatre group reconstructs Rabindranath Tagore’s ‘Tasher Desh’ (‘The Land of Cards’) as a pure drama performance. ‘Helmet’ is a satirical play directed by Anish Ghosh.

‘Tasher Desh’: 7pm on 19 October at Minerva Theatre, Beadon Street, and 3.30pm on 22 October at the Academy of Fine Arts, Cathedral Road. ‘Helmet’: 6.30pm on 22 October at the Academy of Fine Arts. Tickets, Rs.40, Rs.50 and Rs.60, available at the venues from 1-7pm. For details, call 9830042004.

By Indranil Bhoumik

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Mumbai

Music

Ghazal Usne Chhedi

19 October

Veteran singer Soma Ghosh will pay tribute to the iconic Begum Akhtar on her death anniversary. Ghosh will be singing some of the classics associated with the ghazal queen, like Aye Mohabbat Tere Anjaam Pe Rona Aaya.

7pm. Ravindra Natya Mandir, Prabhadevi, Dadar West (24312956). Passes available at the venue and at Rhythm House (22842835).

Around town

Cypherolics

20-21 October

Cypher in B-boying lexicon is an informal session where breakers form a circle and take turns to step in and show their moves. The atmosphere is charged, with the surrounding participants encouraging each other. It’s being organized by Roc Fresh, a city-based breaking crew. 3 hours.

The exhibition showcases the extraordinary beauty of textiles and explores the darker interstices of the textile trade, tracing its history from the early colonial days. Sudhir Patwardhan’s Lower Parel, a dusty snapshot of Mumbai’s once active mill district, and an installation by artist Alice Creischer, Apparatus for the Osmotic Compensation of the Pressure of Wealth During the Contemplation of Poverty, are on display. There will also be an hour-long guided tour of the exhibition on Sundays (11am in English, 11.30am in Marathi/Hindi).

San-Qi is hosting a Balinese food festival. On offer are traditional dishes like the tuna sambal matah (pan-seared fish with a chilli, shallot and lemongrass relish), urap sayur (Balinese salad), pepes sayur (grilled veggies wrapped in banana leaf) and ayam betutu (chicken steamed and then roasted). Balinese appetizers and dishes will also be served in the Sunday brunch.

Comic book fans can attend a workshop by artist Danesh Mohiuddin (Saturday, 1pm), learn to sketch, and attend launches and previews of comic books like ‘The Beast Legion’ (Volume II), ‘Retrograde’ (Volume II), ‘Krishna: A Journey Within’ and ‘Aghori’ (Book II). Visitors can also interact with Aakra-man, a regular guy who believes he is a superhero (Saturday, 4.30pm). The creators of ‘Agent Vinod’, a comic book based on a film, will discuss the relationship between Bollywood and graphic novels. There will be a special preview of the forthcoming issue of ‘The Indian Comics Journal’ with Abid Surti, the creator of the popular comic book character Bahadur. The event to look forward to is the Indian debut of ‘Mumbai Confidential’, a crime noir comic book series created by writer Saurav Mohapatra and artist Vivek Shinde (Sunday, 2pm).